Leaving time
Subtitle: a novel
By: Jodi Picoult
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 405
ISBN-13: 9780345813350
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Contemporary Women; Missing persons; Girls; Mother-daughter relationship; Teenagers; Fiction; Mystery fiction; Women scientists; Mothers and daughters; FICTION
Description: Alice Metcalf was a devoted mother, loving wife and accomplished scientist who studied grief among elephants. Yet it's been a decade since she disappeared under mysterious circumstances, leaving behind her small daughter, husband, and the animals to which she devoted her life. All signs point to abandonment. . .or worse. Still Jenna--now 13 years old and truly orphaned by a father maddened by grief--steadfastly refuses to believe in her mother's desertion. So she decides to approach the 2 people who might still be able to help her find Alice: a disgraced psychic named Serenity Jones, and Virgil Stanhope, the cynical detective who first investigated her mother's disappearance and the strange, possibly linked death of 1 of her mother's co-workers. Together these 3 lonely souls will discover truths destined to forever change their lives. Deeply moving and suspenseful, Jodi Picoult's first novel with Random House Canada is a radiant exploration of the enduring love between mothers and daughters.
Notes: Issued also in electronic format.